First time posting after 9 solid years on Reddit. Thanks for the welcome

I am here now. Just signed up. Mod of /r/bicycling, /r/sanfrancisco, and a few other smaller subs. The whole thing is a mess right now, so I wanted to see if there are greener pastures here. Any tips are welcome. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.

Bathroom's that way.

I wasn't thrilled at the idea of leaving Reddit after 14 years but some things cannot be avoided. My first post here on Lemmy. Thank you for the warm welcome!

This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.

It's nice to be wanted.

When will we get our own persistently-broken video player? That's super important for my quality use experience.

Rest in peace RIF. I was honestly heartbroken. I know how sad that must sound, but goddamn, I used it daily for 6 years. It made my office hours and daily commute on the subway so much better.

I've been here a week or two now. It's going better than Voat did for me when I last tried to leave Reddit. That was full of alt-right crazies basically, but so far here, people have been lovely.

Wandering around, RiFless, looking for something to do on the internet.

I'm going to build my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!

My goodness me. This place rocks. Like the way the internet used to be. Fuck corporate greed. Fuck ads. Fuck egocentric dictatorships. And hello to The Future.

Thanks, so far Lemmy is looking like an interesting place with good vibes all round!

Hello rif ppl. Let's make this home! I'm still adjusting but I'll give it a shot!

Hey, listen, Skippy. I was supposed to be unfrozen in Hollywood for the thousandth anniversary screening of jury Duty 2.

This atmosphere has good vibe. Goodbye RIF, hello Lemmy 👋

Closed Reddit account and embarking on this new adventure with lemmy.

in a weird way it’s refreshing to see a part of the internet breathe again without it needing to be a singular website for forum talk

Hey, hello community this is my first comment on Lemmy, good to see you all.

Wait... Where am I? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. 11 years wandering the Reddit... I'm lost, a little confused, possibly afraid.

Hiii im here from reddit but, when i tried to post the post has been being uploaded for the past 2 hours, also loading communities and upvoting has been EXTREMELY slow ;'D

btw this is a hella cool site

To all my Apollo refugees that are struggling with the interface. wefwef.app is basically a clone of Apollo for this site. The name is shity but it works great!

Redditor here. Feeling a little lost and confused. :)

I sense a real opportunity for the Fediverse off the back of Reddit and third party apps porting across.

If the UX (user experience) is similar then it'll more than likely pull people across.

So far the communities have been extremely friendly and it is a breath of fresh air

Really hope this takes off and remains open and non-commercial.

Thank you for the welcome.

Bye bye Reddit. Hope they collapse after getting rid of 3rd party apps. Reddit is Fun was my shit. I gotta find a Lemmy equivalent so I can get off my phone's web browser.

Here from RiF! First post on Lemmy, here's to a bright future ^^

First post! 🤸

Thanks! I mostly lurked on reddit for many years (as a Digg refugee), and I want to try and get out of that rut and actually contribute some content here. Wish me luck!

Former reddit user here. I hope that this site grows and prospers and I look forward to discovering replacement communities for subreddits I've used.

Incoming user from reddit! My app got shut down. I was salty about it so I decided that I was going to find an alternative, rather than use the official app, and I found lemmy! I like the community vibe so far. I'm still figuring out how different communities and instances work together with federating. I was always more of a lurker on reddit, but I might try to become a more active commenter (for community engagement!)

Cautiously optimistic about the migration. Reddit had gotten pretty weird.

Lasted one day on the official reddit app. Sadly the readability of it with the massive amounts of ads and sponsored posts makes me rather not use reddit at all.

Glad lemmy seems to genuinely be an upcoming alternative!

Nothing better than being greeted with Futurama, for the Fediverse when new episodes of Futurama drop in July! (I'm extremely excited for the new season)

Hi! Everyone I'm Coming From Apollo

I've only been here for two weeks and already have seen major improvements. Thankful to the admins for their hard work, and glad to see the wonderful people here contributing to this platform's awesome growth. Loving it here and wishing continued success to the fediverse :)

Rip Rif. Hello Lemmy.

Well it was a good ride at Reddit. I was using Reddit since since 2006 as a lurker. Lemmy is now my home. Hi all!

im very happy to redditn't

Just registered. Fcuk spaz

Here we go.

I already like the vibe of this place more, at least socially. The site is a bit cumbersome but I'm willing to stick with it to see how it can get better. Plus Sync for Lemmy will be coming and then my life will be fixed.

Today was my first day on the Fediverse via Lemmy.world, and I was so happy to see a Futurama Community among the top posts right when I logged in!

I hope it's also okay to say that I just created /c/Disenchantment for my fellow fans of a slightly related show. 😄

Any Futurama fans that also like Disenchantment and our one true Queen Bean please come join!

Hello. Glad to be here. I'm not going back to reddit, they nuked Sync for Reddit and I refuse to use reddit app.

rest in pepperoni RIF

My first lemmy comment

Wandered over from RIF. Like it here. I think I'll stay.

Hi, all! This is my first comment on Lemmy. I’m exited to be here!

It’s sad watching Reddit go the way of the dodo, but I’m happy to see everyone come together to give the big ole fuck you to u/spez in solidarity and migrate over when they effectively broke Apollo and the other 3pd apps

Thanks! 11yr RiF user here and using Jerboa now, it's different but similar feeling:)

I am now using the RIF app to access this site. Works well so far!

Now hop on the probulator.

Good news everyone!

Woo

Thank you. Just killed my Reddit alter ego so let's vsee what this will bring us. Glad to be here.

What's to stop a single Lemmy instance from going "this is taking too much time and money to run, I'm shutting this server down"? I guess that can apply to any service, but monetization sometimes prevents that from happening. But in this case it's all volunteer work and running a server takes resources.

What happens to all the users created under that Lemmy instance?

Came from RIF. First post here, glad to be here!

Came from RIF. Let's gooooo

Still trying to figure this Lemmy thing out. I have an account with Lemmy.World, but I can still post/view other instances if they are shared? Anyways now that RiF is gone, guess I'm done with Reddit. Glad to be here!

Cheers! Here's hoping for a bright future!

First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help get us started? I'm using the Connect Lemmy app!

I think registration finally worked this time. Good news, everyone!

Just migrated from reddit, and I’m really excited to see Lemmy gain popularity and grow! This is about to be my next addiction.

Rif user here. Just registered!

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What Apps are people using? Wefwef?

Good news everyone! I’ve just smelled out an entirely new parallel dimension called the fediverse

Goodbye RIF, hello lemmy!

Tell my old Reddit account I said…hello.

Uninstalled the Sync app today.(RIP) Should be fun getting to know Lemmy.

NGL

it doesn't feel great, but change is never easy. but this thing is pretty damn cool

We're all refugees here

Testing Lemmy using my browser, what’s the best app?

RiF user here, so far so good. Thanks for the warm welcone.

Thanks for accepting another RIF refugee.

What's fediverse?

Apollo refugee here! Let’s hope this sticks because I lost all trust in Reddit.

Moved from Digg to Reddit 14 years ago. Happy to do the move again.

Woo

As my first post here, I feel welcomed with the highest geek honor!

a new reddit refugees sounds like dream.

RIF user here also, hope to stay here - testing lemmy apps now

Me too! I was on reddit for about 15 years, passed through some stories there. I hope we have a lot of cool safes to open here. At the end, We should´ve come before. This is the model of internet we should encourage, but reddit was too confortable for anything else. Now is the time! The funny thing is that I neve spent money on reddit, but I already signed up for donations here.

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone working to keep servers running during this influx of signups and all the helpful posts I'm seeing around explaining instances and generally how to Lemmy.

First post here!

As a former Apollo user, I’m super impressed by wefwef. Does anyone know what’s in store for its development? I’d love to see a native iOS app.

Happy to try it though I haven't found a cell app I much like yet.

I think the biggest challenge is going to be transplanting the knowledge. There are so many tutorials and walkthroughs that are on reddit.

It's why what was working best was the Mods making everything private.

Thanks for the warm welcome : )

Good to be here!

First comment on Lemmy... Been a lurker on Reddit for years who's recently become more active... Looking forward to contributing more on Lemmy! Network errors galore right now, but that's a good thing right? Everybody coming over from Reddit in droves, I would imagine... Let's f'in goooooo!

Edit: this comment gave me all sorts of problems while attempting to post, sorry for the duplicate versions... but I imagine this will calm down soon and all will be right as rain in no time 👍

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

First post on Lemmy! So long Reddit, looking forward to Sync for Lemmy to be developed. By the way, where's the bathroom?

Hello new friends! I'm a Reddit expat, looking for a new source of cat videos.

Thank you for opening your doors.

Time for me to leave reddit and join the fediverse

Thank you all, one RiFugee here :p

I'm scared, but also excited

Shut up, Terry

My first comment on Lemmy!

Damn over 3k upvotes..activity is going up!. Let's get this train going! Welcome! :)

BaconReader user here. Liking Lemmy so far. Thanks for the welcome! :)

Hellloooooooo... I like grilled cheese

No more centralised social media. I really hope more of us make the switch. Lemmy feels like it could become a really special place.

Good to be here. Things are moving fast with all these apps. This is all very exciting and promising.

Lemmy take us to the promise land!

I love how massive this community is getting

BaconReader user here. Liking Lemmy so far. Thanks for the welcome! :)

Another refugee here. I hope i post more here than i did there

Rip RiF

i too am a RIF refugee. 11 years and im not going back.

Just signed up a few hours ago and trying to get a feel of the place. Looking good so far :)

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

Hi Lemmies, thanks! First post. Excited to see how this turns out!

10+ year Reddit refugee looking for a new home. Lemmy looks slightly difficult to navigate but hopefully this becomes the new face of the internet

Thank you for the warm welcome. Any tips and tricks for us Reddit refugees?

Glad to be living reddit behind. RIP.

Hello fellow previously rdt

Sanctuary, please.

Thank you. Looking forward to the new Futurama episodes too.

well, this is my first comment on lemmy!

Was part of the great Digg migration, and yet again another platform got greedy...

Hello👋

thank you for the welcome!

Yeah yeah, now where's my career chip?

The world of tomorrow seems fun ! I really like it here

Hello :)

Hello world

After 12 years on reddit (most of those on Apollo), it’s great to be here! Thank’s for the warm welcome.

Ahoy future worlds of magic and mystery!

Thank you for the kind greeting. I really am a refugee in more ways than just leaving Reddit.

Yo yo. Happy to be here. Thanks for the warm welcome.

12yr Reddit account being abandoned cause of all the fuckery. Happy to be a Lemming now

It begins 🗿

Hello. First post on Lemmy - y'all seem nice. Missing Sync for Reddit but I will move on. Thank you for having us

Thank you for having me! ♥️

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

This is great to see hopefully more redditors move over. I'm still figuring things out, any suggestions for a good mobile app for Lemmy?

Joined just now after RIF stopped working in the UK... RIP RIF

Hello Lemmy

Of all the communities here, this is one of them.

It begins (⁠｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡⁠)

It begins (⁠｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡⁠)

Finally made an account. Super excited. Reddit immediately started to just feel like it was in a decline, something about logging onto it felt off

I wonder if there will be a lemmy is fun?

Nice that that's the first thing I see here

Hmmmmmm

WELCOME ALLLLL!

It begins 🗿

I remember surfing chans back in the day. I've missed it, but life gets busy. I hated reddit for a long told, but it had so much good information on there and such good third party apps that I caved and it became my favorite thing to do while shitting. I just found out about Lemmy and it feels like I slipped on an old broken-in glove. Thanks for the welcome. After the toxicity of reddit, this is nice.

Used Reddit for 16 years. Also a little confused. But stoked!

I'm reminded of when Voat was gonna replace Reddit. I'm still skeptical we'll get a lot more users migrating since things over there seem to have stabilized. But this is an exciting time for Lemmy to try some new things and fix what was broken with reddit.

give a checkout to lemdro.id, new instance from the collective mod team of several large technical subreddits!

Thanks man. This looks fine.

Happy to be here!!! Everyone has been so welcoming

Don't worry ya'll we 'll ruin it for ya

activity pub - cutting-edge 2013 technology 👽

I still don’t understand any of this or what I’m doing. Wish me luck!

After 12 years on reddit (most of those on Apollo) it’s nice to be here and thank’s for the warm welcome!

Thanks! after many years on reddit, here I am, hello all.

I am still feeling a little lost but fuck spez.

Im interested to see how these communities and apps grow with all of the new users.

I'm 40% happy

I'm very excited to start fresh. ☺️🫶

Thanks for welcome! Although I am still a bit sceptic whether this platform can grow. we will see...

I made it in! Excited for something new after 10 years on Reddit

Hello

Subscribed.

Hi there everyone!

Hello everyone!

Commenting to count. Also, hi ^^

Wanted to post as part of the great migration.

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

Good News everyone! I do feel welcomed into the future, this is my first post. I finally got signed up after I found wefwef and knew it was the missing link and now I could enjoy the fediverse.

I didn’t even try going to the official app. Oh my no.

Had almost a day with lemmy. Now I'm starting to get the basics sorted this looks like it will be a fun place.

Already seeing fermiliar communities which is sweet

Loooooong time lurker, first time posting - I’m stoked to have found such a great alternative so soon! THANK YOU to all the devs and moderators for helping make Lemmy such an inviting and welcoming place to be. I’m looking forward to being a more active participant this go’round. Glad to be here!

I enjoyed rif for over ten years. Sad it is gone, but excited for the next chapter. Feeling very welcomed by lemmy veterans.

What a breath of fresh air!

Hello all!

woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop

Great to be here!

Haven't you ever heard of a little thing called 'showmanship'

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

Hi, first comment on Lemmy/fediverse after 13 years on reddit, it looks good so far. Thanks for the welcome!

Shut up Terry.

🍻 Cheers!

Hey, fellow refugee here. Sometimes I get a language not allowed error when posting? Also do communities with the same name on different servers share comments? For example, PatientsGamers

Thanks, I hope to find my way around and behave myself.

Howdy folks!

Been here for 30 mins, seems nice 🙂

Thanks for the warm welcome! I used Apollo since 2018 and I was disappointed with how reddit treated Christian.

Heelo there

New Lemming here.

Here's to hoping she's built like a steakhouse, and handles like a bistro!

It's nice to be able to use the phone web browser and not be nagged...

Today!

Thanks! I had been checking this place out recently, but then I thought that the night Apollo & friends go dark would be the perfect time to register! Hopefully it’s part of a huge spike in users that makes the news.

I'm here!

Im curious to see how all these communities and apps grow going forward.

Thanks, I was using using Boost for reddit. Boost for lemmy is coming so until then using wefwef. Still learning about the fediverse. Really liking it here.

Thank you. Just killed my Reddit alter ego so let's vsee what this will bring us. Glad to be here.

Nothing better than being greeted with Futurama, for the Fediverse when new episodes of Futurama drop in July! (I'm extremely excited for the new season)

Why do you always have to say it that way?

I never watched Futurama, but it's appropriate. I read the cliff notes.

Let's hope this takes off!

We could've done this before, but better late than never

Welcome everyone. Let's hope for a better future here on lemmy

Thank you for making this!

This is great. Really enjoying the vibe so far and figuring stuff out. Like the tech around fediverse and excited to see where it goes.

frankly I hesitated a lot between lemmy and squabbles... finally I migrated to the 2!

I’m sure they’ll have a cure for that in the future.

Is there a currency equivalent to Reddit gold here? What’s the point of this if I can’t say “Thanks for the gold kind stranger” ???

Thanks! Glad to be here.

Hello World!

We are all out here in the ether together brothers!

So many people joined, which is amazing

Spiderman: Into The Fediverse

Honestly seeing all the corpos ruining the platforms that are what they are because millions of people contributed to them. Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, etc. give so much power to their owners yet they don't realize it past their next dollar. I think internet should have always been a fediverse instead of what it has become.

Hiiiii, thanks for the welcome!

🗿 thank you

Hello world!

greetings! 🖖

Reddit was fun but the admins are insane, I reported an account that was posting CP and they banned me whilst claiming they took action against that account yet it is still up. Classy.

Thank you @Awa@lemmy.world

Happy to be here!

Continues to eat cheesy broccoli

Where is my can of beans?

Im hoping to be here for the long run....

Welcome!

Im interested to see how these communities and apps grow with all of the new users.

🗿 thank you

Thanks! When does it start?

🗿 thank you

Cant see comments, fixed it! It was an adblocker

After a year I went back and tried using Reddit again, wow, what an absolute shit show. That site got noticeably worse.

I had an account there for 8 years with no issue, and this time around I was perma banned after a week cause the mods have really gone off the deep end.

Most threads are filled with Ai comments that all say basically the same thing, and if your comment differs you're banned. You can't have a discussion there anymore

Glory to forwardlooker!

Glory to forwardgoer!

Our path is from present

To stellar future.

- Glory to forwardlooker(Слава вперёдсмотрящему)

Edit: fix translation